Our students are increasingly interacting on a global scale. As they join the workforce they need to have a toolset that will allow them to excel in the ever shifting reality of a global economy. Global education infuses everydat instruction with a global perspective to make students more aware of their connection to the world arround them. Through this lens students aquire an awareness of the impacts their everyday decisions have on other global citizens. Below is a more detailed rational behind global education.
The below passage is taken form a Global Education Wiki http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Global_Education/ This page represents the goals of global education from the perspective of a classroom teacher and from the viewpoints of other stakeholders.
Global Education in the World and USA Classroom
Global Values Education One example, is Australia’s National Framework for //**"Values Education in Australian Schools"**// with a view toward Global Education. The framework of the principles, while similar to values education in US schools, encompasses a global attitude. Rather than focusing on how to behave just in the school yard, these values extend to one’s responsibility, place, and attitude toward diversity within the world. There is a focus on the individual’s “strong sense of identity and self-esteem” so that he/she can extend himself to care for others, the environment, and upholding the rights and dignity of all people. The values also encourage students to participate in community life on a local and world scale. There is emphasis on the thought that each child in his unique way can make a small, yet important difference.
In addition, various school districts around the USA are making serious changes to their curriculums to meet the global challenges of the future. School Districts in North Carolina and Virgina have established what is called the//**"21st Century Learning Goals"**//and is the basis for their curriculums.
Global Education incorporates themes commonly found in the Common Core Standards and in the Next Generation Science Standards.
21st century content: emerging content areas such as global awareness; financial, economic, business, and entrepreneurial literacy; civic literacy; health and wellness awareness.
Learning and thinking skills: critical thinking and problem-solving skills, communication, creativity and innovation, collaboration, contextual learning, information and media literacy.
ICT literacy: using technology in the context of learning so students know how to learn.
Life skills: leadership, ethics, accountability, personal responsibility, self-direction, and so on.
21st century assessments: Authentic assessments that measure all areas of learning.
Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC)
The Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program provides a professional development opportunity for middle and high school teachers from the United States to participate in a program aimed at globalizing teaching and learning in their classrooms.
TGC is a program of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by IREX.
Teachers Share Their Experiences with TGC
Participants are selected through a national, open competition. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens and full-time secondary-level (middle or high school), teaching professionals with five or more years of classroom experience in disciplines including English as a Second Language, English Language or Literature, Social Studies, Mathematics, or Science.
The below passage is taken form a Global Education Wiki http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Global_Education/ This page represents the goals of global education from the perspective of a classroom teacher and from the viewpoints of other stakeholders.
Global Education in the World and USA Classroom
Global Values Education One example, is Australia’s National Framework for //**"Values Education in Australian Schools"**// with a view toward Global Education. The framework of the principles, while similar to values education in US schools, encompasses a global attitude. Rather than focusing on how to behave just in the school yard, these values extend to one’s responsibility, place, and attitude toward diversity within the world. There is a focus on the individual’s “strong sense of identity and self-esteem” so that he/she can extend himself to care for others, the environment, and upholding the rights and dignity of all people. The values also encourage students to participate in community life on a local and world scale. There is emphasis on the thought that each child in his unique way can make a small, yet important difference.Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC)
TGC is a program of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by IREX.
Teachers Share Their Experiences with TGC
Participants are selected through a national, open competition. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens and full-time secondary-level (middle or high school), teaching professionals with five or more years of classroom experience in disciplines including English as a Second Language, English Language or Literature, Social Studies, Mathematics, or Science.